“A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.”
- Gloria Trevi

While implementing the Add This widget for a client, I stumbled upon a curious list. Since Add This allows companies to add their services to their widget, the list of available services has grown to a level of absurdity.

While some of the services are standards like Facebook and Twitter, Digg, or Reddit, most of the rest comprise what I call the Social Media Haunted Mental Institution. With names like BleetBox, CiteULike and Grumper, this may be one of the most comprehensive list of shattered website dreams, representing millions of lost investment dollars.

In the quest to create the next Facebook, they built a hall of madness.

So much effort, so many dreams, crushed in the stamped to create the next great social network. For example, are just the ones that start with “fav”: FAVable, Faves, favlog, Favoriten.de, Favoritus.

I know, it is far easier to criticize than to create, but honestly, Blurpalicious?